Perhaps the symbolism was deliberate, but this year’s F.ounders conference is taking place in Dublin’s Mansion House, in the round room, the venue of the first Dáil Éireann.

The founders of the Irish nation built the modern state in this room, and now nearly a century later another group of founders is trying to build another new world.

The F.ounders conference, the creation of the hyper-active, and hyper-well connected, Paddy Cosgrove, stands unique among the catalog of European tech conferences. A native of Wicklow, Mr. Cosgrave grew up on a farm. “My father had two obsessions: his two cows and one computer,” he said.

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